Hi — I'm Sarah, a creative technologist, currently working at Designit Oslo.

Programming Skills

Design Skills

UX, Research, Web Design, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Work Experience

Designit
2015 — PresentDesign TechnologistI've been a Design Technologist at Designit Oslo since February 2015, working with front- and back-end development, hybrid app development and technology concepts, for different types of projects, while always keeping a strong focus on user experience design and aesthetics.

Railway
2014 — 2015Full-stack DeveloperI worked at Railway from August 2014 - January 2015, as the only developer on the team. During this period I created several web apps for their clients, all during short timelines, and also created new and helped maintain existing websites.

Designhorse
2014Internship: Development & DesignDuring my last semester of college (February 2014 - June 2014), I was an intern at Designhorse in Oslo through Erasmus. Here I worked with web development (both front-end and back-end), web design and branding.

Personal projects

Asthmatic — An asthma weather forecast app
Suffering from asthma myself, I noticed how big of an impact the weather can have on our condition. Each winter in Oslo, as the temperatures drop and the humidity levels change, my asthma gets noticeably worse.
I made an iOS and Android app that uses the weather forecast to calculate whether or not the weather conditions will have a negative impact on people's asthma, and gives advice accordingly.
Check it out on asthmatic.xyz
Technology, design and daily life
I also love the idea of incorporating design and technology into daily life and have made it a hobby to map out day-to-day activities and come up with concepts or prototypes to improve them.
Being interested in math, science and everything data-related, I love making data visualisations in my spare time, for example visualising the demographics of the 2017 elections, using CNN's data.
Other projects
I have a variation of other (smaller) programming projects going on as well. In 2016, I started teaching myself Python, which I used early on to teach elemetary-school girls how to make Minecraft mods themselves.
I'm also working on Twitter bots (with NodeJS) and two other mobile apps, a meditation app which focuses heavily on customized animations (using cordova) and a memory game (using Objective C).

Education

Bachelor studies
2011-2014Digital Design & Development @ Howest University, BelgiumI have a bachelor's degree in Devine: Digital Design & Development, through Howest University in Belgium. These studies are unique in Europe and focus heavily on both development and design. Here I learned useful programming skills such as front-end/back-end development and native app development, as well as design skills like UX, web design and After Effects.